12 Best Hacking Apps For Android [Free APKs For 2019]

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Android is the world’s most popular operating system and its userbase consists of many ethical hacking enthusiasts as well. This has also inspired different developers to create useful ethical hacking apps for Android.

To help out our readers who are interested in performing penetration testing and forensics via their Android smartphones, we’ve curated a list of top and free tools for 2019 that one can use on their rooted as well as non-rooted devices. Our list includes popular Wi-Fi and phone hacking apps like Hackode, zANTI, Shark for Root, etc.

You can find the list of apps and their category in the table below. Further down in the article, I’ve mentioned the pros and cons of these hacker apps as per my own experience and industry reviews. I’ve also provided the relevant download links to help you get started in no time. If you’re looking for similar tools for Windows, Linux, macOS, and iPhone, do check out our dedicated lists:

Hacking Apps For Rooted & Non-Rooted Android

Disclaimer: Please note that Fossbytes is publishing this list just for educational purposes. We don’t support the use of any tool to indulge in unethical purposes.

12 Best Hacking Apps For Android Phones

1. AndroRAT

AndroRAT stands for Android and RAT (Remote Administrative Tools). This top free hacking tool was released a long time ago as a client/server application. The app aims to give you the control of the Android system remotely and fetch the information from it. This Android app runs as a service right after the boot. So, a user doesn’t need to interact with the service. The app provides you the ability to trigger the server connection by a call or SMS.

The features in this useful Android hacking app include collecting information like contacts, call logs, messages, and location. The app also allows you to remotely monitor received message and state of the phone, making a phone call and sending texts, taking pictures from the camera, opening URL in the default browser etc.

2. Hackode

The second entry on our list of top hacking Android apps for 2019 is Hackode. It is an app which is basically a collection of multiple tools for ethical hackers, IT specialists, and penetration testers. In the app, there are three modules — Reconnaissance, Scanning, Security Feed — available in the application.

3. zANTI

zANTI is a reputed Android hacking suite from Zimperium. This software suite comes with multiple tools that are widely used for penetration testing purposes. This mobile penetration testing toolkit allows the security researchers to scan a network easily. This toolkit allows the IT administrators to simulate an advanced hacking environment to detect multiple malicious techniques.

zANTI could be called an app that brings the power of Backtrack on your Android device. As soon as you login into zANTI, it maps the entire network and sniffs the websites being visited along with their cookies — thanks to ARP cache poisoning on devices.

The various modules in the app are network mapping, port discovery, sniffing, packet manipulation, DoS, MITM, and more.

4. FaceNiff

FaceNiff is a top Android hacking app that allows you to intercept and sniff your WiFi network traffic. This tool is widely used to snoop into people’s Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites using your Android device. This hacker-favorite tool steals cookies from Wi-Fi network and gives an attacker unauthorized access to the victim’s account.

FaceNiff is developed by Bartosz Ponurkiewicz — the same developer who wrote Firesheep for Firefox hacking on the desktop.

5. Shark for Root

Shark for Root is an advanced tool for security experts and hackers. This tool works as a traffic snipper and works on Wi-Fi, 3G, and FroYo tethered mode. One can also use the tcpdump command for this free hacking app for rooted Android devices.

6. Droidsheep

Droidsheep is an effective hacking app developed for security analysts interested in playing with Wi-Fi networks. The app has the ability to hijack web session profiles over a network and it works with almost all services and websites.

As you fire up the Droidsheep app, it acts a router that monitors and intercepts all the Wi-Fi network traffic and fetches the profiles of active sessions. With this app, one can sniff Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media accounts.

DroidSheep Guard, another version of app, helps you to detect ARP-Snoofing on the networks i.e. the attacks by FaceNiff, Droidsheep, and other software.

7. DroidBox

DroidBox is an app that offers dynamic analysis of Android applications. Using the app, one can get a wide range of results about the hashes for the APK package, network traffic, SMS and phone calls, information leaks via different channels etc.

This top Android hacking application also gives you the ability to visualize the behavior of an Android app package.

8. Nmap

One of the most popular network scanning apps for desktop can also be used on the Android operating system. Nmap works on both non-rooted and rooted phones. If you are a beginner Android hacker, this hacking app is a must-have.

9. SSHDroid

SSHDroid is an SSH server implementation developed for Android that allows you to connect your Android device to a PC and run commands like ‘terminal’ and ‘adb shell’ and edit files. It provides an extra security later when you are connecting to a remote machine.

10. Wi-Fi Kill

Wi-Fi Kill is a great hacking tool for rooted Android devices. Using this tool, one can disable a device’s internet connection if it’s connected to your network. In reality, it blocks the packet data going to a device. Thanks to its simple interface, any novice user can use this Android hacking app. Find the apk for this tool using the link given below:

12. Fing Network Scanner

This popular network scanner app for Android is used by hackers and security professionals to discover which devices are connected to the internet, map devices, locate security risks, find intruders, solve network problems, etc. It comes with more than a dozen free network tools for making your job easier.